Sigh – That Backfired

I took a pause in writing the fourth novel, ‘Corrupted Souls’, to write the short story, ‘Charon’s Obol’, to submit to my publishers new paranormal anthology. I hoped, when it was done, the experience would have given me a little distance from the novel and fired up the creativity so I could return to the novel fresh, invigorated, and able to wrap it up.

Not so much.

It seems, I was away from ‘Corrupted Souls’ just long enough to lose the thread.

This is not the first time I’ve been away from a novel and lost the ability to just hop back on. It was, in fact, the third novel, ‘Nine of Cups’ that this happened last to me. That time I was away for a good number of month before attempting to get back to writing it. It was hard, but I got there. This time shouldn’t be as hard but I am debating what to do.

I can troll through it and find all the places that are not connected up – that are missing scenes and see if any of them spark my mind and get me rolling again.

Or…

My other option is to just start at the beginning – reading, doing some light editing, and once more immersing myself in the story.

Each option has its pro’s and con’s, so I am waffling right now.

Whatever way I go, I have to start moving now. The longer I wait, the worse it will be.

I know I need to add little constant things through out the sections already written, so maybe I should just do that and start at the beginning. I would like to wrap it up and set it aside to edit fresh later, and get to work on the comments from my editor regarding the second novel ‘Bindings & Spines’, as well though.

Sometimes listening to my Muse can be… well, sometimes thing don’t always work out quite as you might hope.

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